Bell Hooks

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02/27/2024 English 112 Lia Cullen In Bell Hooks’ essay, “A Place Where the Soul Can Rest” the porch held a profound significance for women, serving as a place of security separate from the sexist world. Growing up as an only child shielded me from all scarcity from the external world; my family would be the first place I went to if I had ever felt unsafe. Hooks’ essay highlighted gender equality, sexism and feminism, which made me realize how grateful I am to have grown up in a house with strong, fearless parents. They have shown me to believe in myself, know my rights, and become independent. With this, the women in Hooks’ essay were forced to train themselves to be independent, all to protect themselves from the patriarchal man; “They must …show more content…
In addition to having their porch abolished, his threats to “...kill and kill again would not be heard by the neighbors,” conveying that the inside of the house holds more than meets the eye. Hooks presents this information without any hesitation, as if sexism was normalized. In the eyes of Mr. V, our patriarchal dad, the porch was the only space that women had, with the awareness of how easy it would be to take away; the only place where “men could look but not touch.” In contrast to the feeling of safety, even in such cases, men could watch and still exert power over women. When women felt they had the most authority, there was always a man prepared to assert control and relegate them back to “their place”. “A female lurking, lingering, lounging on a street corner is seen by everyone, looked at, observed. Whether she wants to be or not she is prey for the predator, for the Man.” In other words, granting women the porch while reinforcing their rules and duties in the house was manipulative, and clearly showed the mistreatment of gender roles. Bell Hooks’ examination of the porch was used as a lens to pay attention to the impact of the patriarchy on women’s

Intersectional Feminism In Bell Hooks

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Bell Hooks Killing Rage: Militant Resistance

In Killing Rage: Militant Resistance, bell hooks turns a personal experience of racism and sexism into an opportunity to advocate for the ownership of rage as a means to liberation. By exploring the notion of black rage, hooks helps bring awareness not only to the ways in which we can use this rage as a fuel for transformation, but also to accentuate the distinction between black rage as perceived by white society v. black rage for what it actually is. hooks argues against the notion of rage as “something…

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Essay about Writing and Black Women

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Confronting Class In The Classroom Analysis

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Analysis: The Darling Nursery

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Albatross Anchor Case Study

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Personal Narrative Essay: How Fishing Changed My Life

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Precious Film Analysis

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The Piano - Not A Feminist Film Essay

Critical Essay on Jane Campion’s The Piano. Log: My thesis is that: Although being directed by a mold-breaking female and despite being littered with feminist tropes, Jane Campion’s The Piano is not a feminist film. Source Their opinion vs. mine Reliability Interview Magazine, Jane Campion by Katherine Dieckmann, (January 1992) As the director she hold s a omni-conscious view, aware of all possibilities of interpretations. Thus she both agrees and disagrees with me. She is a very reputable…

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